The Next Level Esports Blog:
Read & Learn About Esports Coaching
Most of the mistakes you make as an esports coach do not feel like mistakes in the moment. Giving detailed feedback feels productive, and sharing what worked for you as a player feels useful. Explaining the solution right away feels efficient.
But over time, these habits slow your players' developm...
The Words You Use Are Already Coaching Your Team (Whether You Mean To or Not)
Let's talk about something most coaches completely overlook.
Not strategy. Not practice structure. Not player development timelines.
Words.
The language that you use.
All day, every day.
Specifically, the rules, agreemen...
Esports coaching is more than just knowing the mechanics of a game. Many aspiring esports coaching professionals focus heavily on game-specific knowledge, thinking that understanding every detail about their game will make them great coaches. However, while game knowledge is essential, true coaching...
A VOD review is when a coach and player analyse a recorded match together to find mistakes, understand why they happened, and fix them in future games. Done well, it turns raw footage into real improvement. Here is how to run one that actually changes how your players perform.
As a part of espor...
Every team loses and experiences setbacks. That's simply the nature of esports and competition. This blog will discuss how you can help your players recover from losses and setbacks.
An example of a setback that we collectively experienced was COVID. It made the world stand still for almost two yea...
Preparing your esports team to perform at their best online is one thing. Achieving the same thing for live stage performance is another. You know this, and so do your players. Performing in front of a live crowd is a very real challenge.
How you prepare your team in the months, weeks, days, hours,...
Have you ever played with that one friend that most of the time rushed in, always looking for action, and made a sick fast play or that he rushed in and straight up died. Or that other friend that when you are going in: “where are you when I need you? You are to late!” But sometimes makes the best t...